LAKELAND, Fla. - Florida Southern completed the weekend sweep of the Embry-Riddle baseball team on Saturday, winning both ends of a twin bill, 8-0 and 11-1. The shutout in game one was the first for the Eagle offense in 2017 and ERAU managed just three runs total on the weekend, despite 22 hits in three games. The Eagles (9-18) have lost eight straight for the first time since 1992, while the Mocs (18-6) have won 10 in a row.
Embry-Riddle will travel to Tampa next weekend to take on the third-ranked Spartans for a three-game series on Friday and Saturday.
Game 1 - FSC 8, ERAU 0
The Mocs scored two runs in four separate innings while Jake Walsh pitched a gem against the Blue and Gold. Walsh tossed eight innings, allowing just two hits to the Eagle batters while striking out 10 en route to his fifth win of the season.
Jonathan Camp hit a solo homer in the top of the first that was inexplicable called foul, and the senior was unable to reach base the remainder of the game, ending his 31-game streak of reaching base safely that stretched back to the 2016 season.
Christopher Medina got the first Eagle hit of the day in the fourth before
Cody Bogart and
Kyle Guttveg collected the only other hits for the Blue and Gold in the fifth and ninth, respectively.
Austin Lee (2-5) was on the losing end of the pitching decision, striking out nine Mocs in seven innings.
Game 2 - FSC 11, ERAU 1
In the series finale, the Eagles couldn't take advantage of their baserunners, stranding 11 in the game as FSC pounded out three home runs, and salted the game away in the seventh with a seven-run frame.
Camp gave the Eagles a 1-0 lead in the first when he singled in Medina from second after Medina had doubled, but the Mocs came right back with one in their half of the first against
Kenny Burkhead before taking the lead in the third and never trailing again.
Back-to-back homers in the bottom of the fifth made it 4-1 FSC before the home team plated seven in the seventh.
Guttveg finished 3-for-5 in the game, while Camp,
Zach Howard and Bogart each had two hits.